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by neltnerb 5y ago
And the vast majority of Oakland is fine. I used an extreme example to demonstrate that the idea that Oakland has worse crime issues than SF is highly dependent on where you happen to be. Oakland is just physically huge, suggesting it has a
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Oakland is a big place. It varies by neighborhood same as San Francisco. Most is fine, certainly no worse than the Tenderloin.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, I didn't want it to veer off topic, but I think it is extremely obvious that such standards involved implicit or explicit biases, as well as real recognition of individual customers' actual past behavior (like if a gas statio
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sure, but the store that accepted the invalid credit card has traditionally been on the hook. The store is the one being targeted even if the person whose credit card was stolen can get off with disputing the charge. And before everything w
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Oh, I think they are talking about the earlier period where you just did a carbon copy of the card, got it signed, and if the card was a fake there was certainly no way to tell at the time. It would be the equivalent of a bad check, talking
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by neltnerb 5y ago
My read was closer to what the article stated at the end -- the issue is that it is written for a tech geek audience when the real audience should have been judges and lawyers. So being vague and flippant was why they were foolish, not in s
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Although at these scales, a CCP at 400MW output is "only" ~$300M, so building that small power station might not be that big a deal compared with the cost of turning off?
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I also got one that was a fake that was talking about measuring two actual quantum properties simultaneously by using a third state to probe it indirectly. Which is absolutely a real thing except that the exact quantum properties in fact di
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In Wake of Pipeline Hack, Biden Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity(npr.org)
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Apologies, I truly intended "out of stock" rather than "obsoleted" and agree 100% that there is a big difference.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I meant the parts that are not common enough to have pin-compatible substitutes from multiple vendors. I have worked with people way above hobbyist level and it is those obnoxious non-standard parts that are the ones that suddenly go out of
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I appreciate it, but still apologize for being flippant. I did intend the comment to be about the dog washing startup that I assumed to be a fairly small business. Not buying the (presumed to be in the 10,000 quantity range) MCUs they neede
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I agree and have experienced that too. Even without obsoleted parts, stuff will be impossible to find all the sudden, particularly specialty components. Heck, I've had vendors who simply had fabs that caught fire... but I always have a
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I'm sincerely sorry for offending you so badly.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I don't doubt it, in the article the dog washing company specifically said that their design firm already had a solution that just required new PCBs. That is not sympathetic, that's very normal. What you're describing is symp
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I get that this is a potential big problem, but I had to stop reading when the dog washing company blamed needing to respin a new board on a chip being out of stock due to this. I'm sorry, but if you aren't buying enough chips to
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by neltnerb 5y ago
You can draw finer lines by drawing a thick one and then erasing part of the line with the background color? On an android phone? I'm extremely impressed. When I try to do stuff like that on Android I'm lucky if the input drawing
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Wow, that sounds like a response made without input from their PR department. They basically obligated themselves to show these ads now if Signal tries to run them (even taking at face value their claim that they were never set to run). So,
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I can't exactly say I'm proud of getting most of these right-ish, though I've never seen the snapchat logo before, or if I have no one mentioned what it was! If anything I'm disappointed in how close I was for pepsi cons
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by neltnerb 5y ago
With a mouse? I'd be impressed. With a touchpad? Still impressed. With a touchscreen? Maaaaaaybe but wow tedious.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I guess I can see that, do potential partners and sponsors not just accept a website counter? I guess an outside company is sort of an auditor on that kind of things. Language localization stuff is about the only reason I could think of, an
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Honest question -- why do you need analytics on an open source project like the one referenced? What information could they possibly get from it that matters to what they're doing? I've used GA once on an open source focused blog,
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, there are hilarious numbers of plugin audio filters, you probably just need to install the extras. I know on my system they got installed by default but I have seen them absent before on bare bones installs.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yeah, I've owned a house for fifteen years. I know how this works. Saying your house is worth $1.1M now and you only have to pay a mortgage of 2500 a month completely ignores that you purchased it at a different price, or at least have
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This is super deceptive. If you had actually needed to pay $1.1M in principal even at 0% interest over 30 years you'd be paying $2777 a month. Your comment comes across as basically suggesting it is other people's fault for not bu
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I'll assume it's a terrible idea, whisperd and whisperclient are probably too on the nose. Beacon is pretty great =)
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I think the slightly longer version is that going bankrupt is not usually a discrete step in time and that planning and negotiating between creditors, debtors, and the government is going on. So if there is a law there is a government inter
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by neltnerb 6y ago
I would hope at such small levels of production, the proximity to the user would reduce power losses and be automatically corrected for by the timing generators so as to shift production closer to the user. It does seem like close to retail
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by neltnerb 6y ago
At first, I don't think the business model was there yet. I haven't read a recent report so I know it is out of date, but on the order of half the costs were installation. If the company maintaining a contract on your roof goes ou
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by neltnerb 6y ago
It would make sense if they were talking about mice, in which case "on" is still more accurate but "with" is probably correctly assumed to be equivalent. Research with humans involves them being on the author list...

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